What are the 1000 most common words in English?
June 19, 2008
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Sometimes students ask simple, direct questions that I can’t immediately answer. For instance, an ESL student wondered, “What are the 1000 most common words in…
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Compelling Conversations site is up and running again!
June 17, 2008
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Sometimes you don’t appreciate something until you lose it. My website, down and out for almost a week of tech turmoil as I changed server,…
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TaLKing in English, Talking about English, and Learning Korean
June 16, 2008
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Sometimes we confuse talking about English with talking in English. As English teachers, we need to gently encourage our students to talk as much as…
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ESL classes should include more conversation activities!
June 15, 2008
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Conversation activities need greater presence in classrooms “Speech is civilization itself. It is silence which isolates.” -Thomas Mann (1875-1955) German novelist Conversation remains a vital…
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What should every (college) ESL student know?
June 15, 2008
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What should every ESL student know? Beats me. One size fits all philosophies often seem a bit strange to me. Can anybody really answer this…
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